Dana 8. travnja 2026. (srijeda) od 10:00 do 11:30 , profesor Jeremy Shearmur će u Knjižnici Fakulteta hrvatskih studija Sveučilišta u Zagrebu održati predavanje pod naslovom "Role of pluralism and competing research programmes (and learning across them) in Popper, and problems that this raises about organization of academic disciplines".

Gostovanje prof. Shearmura odvija se u organizaciji Vijeća doktorskih studija Fakulteta hrvatskih studija. Otvoreno je za sve zainteresirane studente, nastavnike i širu javnost. Profesor Shearmur će održati predavanje nakon kojega će uslijediti diskusija.

Sažetak izlaganja:

“In this paper, I will raise some broad issues relating to Karl Popper’s approach to knowledge, and some questions relating to the organization of academic disciplines which they open up. Popper’s ideas are typically thought of in terms of his stress on the fallibility of our knowledge, and the idea that we may aspire for truth. He also stressed that our understanding of the world, and, indeed, even our empirical knowledge, is influenced by a plurality of fallible theories and expectations. And he argued that we should try to learn from one another: something that is possible even if we don’t share fundamental ideas. Popper’s views may usefully be contrasted with empiricist ideas about pure data simply being available to us, if we proceed carefully and analytically. But they may also be contrasted with Thomas Kuhn’s ideas about scientific activity consisting of puzzle-solving within uncritically held frameworks of ideas and practises, concerning which revolutions take place from time to time. They also contrast with those strands in postmodernism and poststructuralism in which there are simply different contending perspectives. After introducing and exploring these ideas, I will pose the question: if there is anything to them, what consequences might this have for how we could usefully organise our academic institutions? I would hope that the paper should give rise to interesting critical discussion, in the course of which I could offer additional explanation and arguments, depending on the interests and concerns of those with whom I am dialogue.”

O profesoru Jeremyju Shearmuru:

Jeremy Shearmur emeritus je na Australian National University. Jedan je od najznačajnijih hayekijanaca i popperijanaca. Osam godina bio je asistent Karla Poppera na LSE, predavao na sveučilištima Edinburgh, Manchester i George Mason. Sad živi u mjestu Dumfries u Škotskoj. Obrazovan na LSE-u (London School of Economics), gdje su ga podučavali Popper, Lakatos, Watkins, Musgrave, Feyerabend i Gellner, a pohađao je i seminar Michaela Oakeshotta. Radio je kao Popperov asistent. Predavao je filozofiju u Edinburghu (sudjelovao na istraživačkim seminarima škotske filozofije s Georgeom Daviejem); predavao političku teoriju u Manchesteru; bio Research Associate Professor na George Mason University; predavao političku teoriju, a zatim filozofiju na Australian National University. Autor je knjiga o Hayeku i Popperovoj političkoj misli; suurednik je knjige Harryja Actona Morals of Markets te Popperove After the Open Society. Trenutačno radi na radovima o Lakatósu, Hayeku i Popperu, kao i na knjizi Living with Markets.

Bibliografija: poveznica.